, 1887-08-04
PickingS.

The busiest class Of mechanics in
the country are buiIdeas of motive
power for steam and electricity.
Coke is so scarce i'll the south that
six to ten furnaces will soon be
obliged to bank up or blow out.
Tickets from San Francisco to St.
Louis aud return during the G. \. X
encampment will be sold for $3.50.
John Pean Curry. of 81 Broadway,
y. Y, has brought suit to recover
10000 acres Of land on Staten island.
The Chicago builders strike last
spring cost 900, 900 in wages, which
would have been paid to $4,000 work
ers.
The Spanish government has
abolished the export duties on Cuban
and Porto Rican sugar, spirits and
honey.
William Hodge, who served first
in the Union and then in the rebel
army, had his application for pension
refused
Tie report that opium was being
smuggled into the United States in
bonded baggage from Victoria, is
denied.
Noses A. Shaw, surviving partner of
Shaw & Co, lumber dealers, Tow
anda, Pa, has assigned. Liabilities
100000.
The area OF tobacco cultivation in
Virginia is said to lee diminishing
but the quality of the production Is
improving.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad will make new issue of
SlO,GO0,0O0 of stock. OF this S7,00O,--
600 will be used for rolling stock and
improvements.
The New York cotton exchange was
greatly excited, July %, on account
of drop of II points in the Liver
pool markets. August cotton broke
36 points in New York.
The pope has decided there is no
ground for papal interference with
the Knights of Labor question. He
has conveyed the announcement of
this decision to Cardinal Gibbons.
Reports from New York say that
there is no longer any call for the re.
vised edition of the New Testament
and that there are enough on hand to
supply the world for twenty years.
The Union Pacific contemp!ates
shortening its running time between
Omat,; and Portland from Sc to 81
hours. In this case the Northern Pa
citic would be compelled to make bet
Ter time.
4 bark load Of orange trees are Cd
the way from Yokohama to San Fran
cisco, Cal. They are to be distribute
ed al over the state, but chiefly. it is
expected. i'll the central and upper
portions.
1t is not improbable that the
strength of Blaine and Sherman in
the convention next year may be so
nearly equal as to cause the usual re-
suit under such conditionS-then nom
ination of third man.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany threatens to raise rates between
San Francisco and Vancouver on the
Canadian Pacific railway. The road
Gamurs to this and threatens to put
on line Of steamers of its own.
Boston exchanges have frequent
references to Thomas Concerts" :"
We have them here too, and when
accompanied by Il bootjaek and stove
wood accomplishments, they are
voted knoaway cultus in select musi-
cal circles.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, is pre-
pairing for the August number OF the
Forum an article setting forth at
length the reasons why in his judge
ment the Republican party should be
returned to power. The argument
will touch upon all the important is
sues Of the coming campaign.
What difference there is in the
facilities FOR travelling now and fifty
years ago. Here is the venerable ST.
mon Cameron making a tour of Eng
land, Scotland. France. Switzerland
and Germany and his son Don, a
United States Senator. taking in the
glories of an Alaska summer.
The Omaha Republican says: Mr..
Potter, general manager of the Union
Pacific system, has purchased 5000
tons of new steel rails. to be delivered
at Portland, Or, but refuses to say
where they are 10 be used. 1t is sup
posed, however, that the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation system IS be ex-
tended"
Il. VI. I. Hunter was the youngest
man ever elected speaker Of the ma
tional house OF representatives-30 80
years 0f ggT; next came Howell Cobb.
81, and then Henry Clay, 33. Hon.
Robert C. Winthrop and Gen. Il. p.
Banks are the only surviving speak
ers Of ante-bellum days. The former
Is IS and the latter II years of age.
Polygamous Mormons are again
talking of chihuahua and Sonora as
Il retreat from persecution. The
young men of The church are the rul
ing spirits III the move FOR stat ehood.
and II l. evident enough that the doc
trlne OF plurality of wives cannot
long hold back the tide OF wholesome
morality now rising in the territory.
Experts compute the value of the
cotton Gro. of the present year in the
Southern states at 5000, u,000.UOO. But
cotton Is by no means sole king. for
1t Is noted that even this vast sum
that stands for its value IS S75.OOO,-
900 less than III" value of the average
hay crop OF the country in the past
four years, about S50,0J0,OOO less than
the average OF recent wheat crops,
and fully S310,00O,G00 less than the
average corn crop of the same per
iod."